PROCEEDINGS OF 



THE EOYAL SOCIETY. 



vol. xxvi. No. 184. 



CONTENTS. 



November 15, 1877. 



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The Bakerian Lecture. — On the Organization of the Fossil Plants of the 

 Coal-measures. — Part IX. On the latest Researches into the Organization 

 the Fossil Plants of the British Ooal-measures, especially of the 

 Catamites and Lepidoclendra. By W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., Professor 

 of Natural History, Owens College, Manchester 411 



November 22, 1877. 



Remarks on the Attributes of the Germinal Particles of Bacteria, in Reply 



to Prof. Tyndall. By J. Burdon Sanderson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. . . 416 



Novemler 30, 1877- 



Anniversary Meeting . 



Address of the President . - .CyQ .^^^ 



Report of the Kew Committee . <^p. 



List of Presents \. f > . . < \ . 



December 6, 1877. 



I. On the Tides at Malta. By Sir Gr. B. Airy, K.C.B., Astronomer-Royal . 4-85 



II. Observations on Hermetically-sealed Flasks opened on the Alps. In a Letter 

 to Professor Huxley, Sec. R.S. By Professor Tyndall, LL.D., 

 F.R.S 487 



III. Researches on the Effect of Light upon Bacteria and other Organisms. 

 By Arthur Downes, M.D., S.Sc. Cert. Cantab., and Thos. P. Blunt, 

 M.A. (Oxon.), F.C.S 488 



IY. Points of Resemblance between the Suprarenal Bodies of the Horse and 

 Dog, and certain occasional Structures in the Ovary. By Charles 

 Creighton, M.B., Demonstrator of Anatomy, Cambridge University . 500 



Price Five Shillings and Sixpence. 



